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a recent emerson poll shows senator sanders trailing joe biden in michigan. he was joined at the beginning of the event by the reverend jesse jackson. ♪ ♪ [john lennon's "power to the people" playing] sen. sanders: thank you, grand rapids! whoa. i didn't know there were this many people in grand rapids. [cheers and applause]

what i want to do now is something different than i've done before. because today is a special day for me. i'm going to just say a few words because i want to introduce somebody who is a hero for me, he is one of the transformative figures in modern american history. jesse jackson junior -- [cheers and applause] reverend jackson worked with martin luther king. [cheers and applause] jesse jackson helped lead the fight against segregation and racism in the south. [cheers and applause] reverend jackson took that fight to the north.

[cheers and applause] in 1984 and in 1988, jesse jackson put together historical campaigns. and what he created transformed politics in america. what he did as the first major african-american candidate in the history of this country. [cheers and applause] was to put together a coalition which he named "the rainbow coalition." [cheers and applause] and today, we understand what that is, 30 years ago, that was a revolutionary idea. and what he said is that black and white and latino and native american and asian american have to come together for justice. [cheers and applause]

and in 1984, he took on the political establishment. they said you can't win, and yet he ran a brilliant campaign. in 1988, they said you can't win. he ran an even better campaign. he came to vermont, i proudly supported him back then, he won vermont and a number of other states including the state of michigan. [cheers and applause] let me say this, the reverend jesse jackson has broken down more barriers than one could even dream of. and in my view, others may disagree with me, but because of all of the racism and all of the barriers that the reverend jesse jackson broke down, barack obama was able to become the first african-american president. [cheers and applause]

if there was no jesse jackson, in my view, there would not have been a president barack obama. [cheers and applause] so i just want to thank reverend jackson for his support in this campaign. but mostly, i want to thank him for being one of the great important fighters for justice in the modern history of this country, and it gives me a great deal of pleasure -- i'm going to come back in a minute to add a little bit more, but i wanted to just say a few words about somebody who has been a friend of mine for 30 years, who is in fact a great american hero. please welcome to the stage reverend jesse jackson. [cheers and applause] [aretha franklin's "respect" playing] [cheers and applause]

rev. jackson: let's hear it for bernie one more time. [cheers and applause] this is an historic season in which we are living today. yesterday marked -- in 1965, the right to vote, we lived and died together. in that struggle, mother teresa was killed. and we bled. those who fought to make it happen must not be let down today. [cheers and applause] the right to vote, august 6, 1965, began a revolution of

values. the revolution of values. white women couldn't serve on juries. 18-year-olds couldn't vote. they couldn't vote on campus. they couldn't vote bilingually. and then there was a new majority. blacks, latinos, native americans, we are the people. we are the people. [cheers and applause] i stand with bernie sanders today because he stood with me. [cheers and applause]

i stand with him because his -- because he never lost his case for justice of the people. [cheers and applause] i stand with him because he stands with you. [cheers and applause] >> thank you, jesse! [cheers and applause] rev. jackson: i've talked about the firewall, it has some needs too. in this coalition, the foundation of which black and slavery, fortunately we never lose when we fight together. [cheers and applause] and god has the power to see us through. what do we want today? we want the constitutional right

to vote, not just the states right. [cheers and applause] we want to revive the u.s. civil rights commission. [cheers and applause] close the wealth tax gap. [cheers and applause] let them pay their fair share of taxes. $50 billion with just two cents on the dollar. because this land is our land. [cheers and applause] through silicon valley, this land, we must have a common agenda. we talked about democratic socialism, what that all means. democracy is of, for, and by the people. a fair, social, spending budget. [cheers and applause] someone called it economic bill of rights, then came social

security. johnson called it war on poverty. brother king called it job for every american. roosevelt, dr. king, they were on the right page. thank god for bernie sanders. [cheers and applause] there is a great concern today about the impact of african-american women, there should be one on the supreme court. [cheers and applause] the real consideration to be on the ticket of the next nominee of our party. [cheers and applause] inclusion leads to growth. when there is growth, everybody wins. red and yellow, brown, black, and white, we are all precious in god's sight. everybody matters. everybody in, nobody out.

everybody in, nobody out. everybody in health care, nobody out. everybody in health care, nobody out. everybody in better education, nobody out. everybody in decent living wage, nobody out. in an environment where we can breathe, nobody out. this land is our land. do not let them discourage us. if you vote as you rally, we win. if you vote, every 18-year-old votes this november, and next week, if you are a college student, i can vote where i can choose.

i have the right of residency. say i am somebody, i am somebody. i am somebody. respect me. protect me. never neglect me. i am somebody. red and yellow, brown, black, and white, we are all precious in god's sight. if my mind can conceive it, in my heart can believe it, i know i can achieve it. i can achieve a new world. i must dream, i must dream, and

dream, and dream, and i must keep hope alive. keep hope alive. keep hope alive. keep hope alive. keep hope alive. never surrender. keep hope alive. bernie sanders can win. will win. must win. bernie can win, will win, must win. when bernie wins, health care wins. [cheers and applause] [chanting]

[cheers and applause] sen. sanders: let me just say to the reverend jackson, it is one of the honors of my life to be supported by a man who has put his life on the line for the last 50 years fighting for justice. [cheers and applause] and everything that jesse jackson said is what this campaign is about. we are going to do everything humanly possible to wipe out all forms of discrimination in this

country. [cheers and applause] we are sick and tired of systemic racism in america. [cheers and applause] we are tired of a wealth gap where white families have 10 times more wealth than black families. [cheers and applause] we are tired of black mothers dying at three times the rate of white mothers. [cheers and applause] we are tired of a health care system that does not give care and justice to the african-american community. [cheers and applause] so we are united, and i look forward, as president, to working with jesse jackson at my side to make sure -- [cheers and applause] to make sure that we bring the principles of social justice, economic justice, racial justice, and environmental justice that has marked his entire life. [cheers and applause]

and today, as the reverend jackson has said, is an historical period in american history. together we can, we must, and we will defeat the most dangerous president in the history of this country. [cheers and applause] now, you don't have to agree with everything that jesse jackson said or that i say to understand that we cannot continue to have in the white house dishonoring our country, someone who is a pathological liar. [cheers and applause] you cannot continue to have in the white house, no matter what your political view may be, somebody who is running a corrupt administration. [cheers and applause] we cannot have in the white

house, no matter what your political view may be, somebody who has apparently never read the constitution of the united states. [cheers and applause] somebody who thinks he is above the law! [cheers and applause] somebody who is trying to undermine american democracy. [cheers and applause] we cannot have in the white house today somebody who is a racist, who is a sexist, who is a homophobe, who is a xenophobe, who is a religious bigot.

donald trump wants to divide us up based on the color of our skin, where we were born, our religion. [crowd booing] our sexual orientation. [crowd booing] well, we have got news for trump. we are going to beat him because we are bringing the american people together. [cheers and applause] and that is the rainbow coalition that jesse jackson talked about. [cheers and applause] black and white and latino, native american, asian american, gay and straight. [cheers and applause] [chanting "bernie!"] sen. sanders: and we are going to win this election, we are going to win this election because the american people, and

this is something jesse jackson has been fighting his whole life, are sick and tired of big money interests dominating our political process. [cheers and applause] we believe that democracy is one person, one vote, not billionaires buying an election. [cheers and applause] and that is why we are going to support a constitutional amendment to guarantee voting rights for every american. [cheers and applause] we are through with the voter suppression. [cheers and applause] we are through with the excess of gerrymandering. and we are going to move this country to public funding of elections so all people can vote. [cheers and applause] and we are going -- people say, how do you unify the american people? we are divided. i will tell you how you unify the american people. you give them an agenda that all

working people support. that's how you do it. [cheers and applause] and that agenda says that in the richest country in the history of the world, we are not going to continue to have three billionaires owning more wealth than the bottom half of american society. we are not going to have an economy where the rich become much, much richer, when 500,000 people tonight are homeless in america. [cheers and applause] we are going to raise that federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. [cheers and applause] we are going to have equal pay for equal work. [cheers and applause] and because jesse jackson and i, and you, believe in the trade union movement, we are going to make it easier for workers to join unions, not harder. [cheers and applause]

we are going to revolutionize education in america. [cheers and applause] universal high-quality affordable childcare for every family. [cheers and applause] tripling funding for low income title i schools. [cheers and applause] every kid in america, regardless of the income of his or her family, deserves a quality education. [cheers and applause] and we, because we believe in education, we believe in teachers. we need more african-american teachers. [cheers and applause] we need more latino teachers.

[cheers and applause] we made more special education teachers. [cheers and applause] we want the best on college campuses all over this country to say with pride, they are going to do some of the most important work, become teachers, educate our kids. [cheers and applause] and that is why i believe no teacher in america should make less than $60,000 a year. [cheers and applause] and because we believe in education, we believe that every person in this country, regardless of income, should be able to get the higher education they need. [cheers and applause] and that is why we are going to make public colleges and universities tuition free. [cheers and applause] you know, 12 years ago, congress, against my vote, voted

to bailout the crooks on wall street. [crowd booing] two years ago, trump and his friends gave $1 trillion in tax breaks to the 1% and large corporations. [crowd booing] well, if the right wing can bailout the crooks on wall street, we can cancel all student debt in america. [cheers and applause] for the last 30 years, jesse jackson and i have believed that health care is a human right, not a privilege. [cheers and applause] and we are getting closer and closer to that goal. [cheers and applause] we will not continue to be the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to

every man, woman, and child. we will not continue a cruel and dysfunctional system in which we spend twice as much as the people in other countries, and yet 87 million of us are uninsured or underinsured, at least 30,000 die each year because they don't get to a doctor when they should. [crowd booing] at least 500,000 people in america go bankrupt because they are struggling with cancer, or heart disease or alzheimer's. [crowd booing] what kind of system bankrupts people because they are fighting for their lives against a terrible disease? we are going to end that health care system. we are going to move to medicare for all!

[cheers and applause] we have a president who tells us that he is a great genius. [crowd booing] oh, he knows everything about the coronavirus, and he even knows more about climate change. [crowd booing] this is a president who believes that climate change is a hoax. [crowd booing] well, we believe that donald trump is a hoax. [cheers and applause] you ready for a radical idea? this looks like a radical audience. you ready? i don't want anyone fainting. our administration will believe in science. [cheers and applause]

not right wing extremism. scientists are telling us is that climate change is an existential threat. but what thatword means is in terms of the what the scientists are telling us, if we do not act boldly and aggressively, major cities in america, by the end of the century, will be underwater. more and of that farmers in the midwest cannot grow the food we need. we are talking about more and more extreme weather disturbances. flooding. we are talking about, at the end of the century, hundreds of millions of people worldwide becoming climate refugees, not

able to live in their own communities because there's no water to drink or land to grow their crops. whether the fossil fuel industry likes it or not, we are going to transform our energy system away from fossil fuel. [cheers and applause] to energy efficiency and sustainable energy under the principles of a green new deal. [cheers and applause] we can create up to 20 million good-paying jobs making that transition, and that is what we have got to do. [cheers and applause] and because climate change, as all of you know, is not just an american issue, it is by

definition a global issue, as president, my job will be to reach out to the people of china, who are already hard-hit by climate change, to reach out to the people of india, also hard-hit by climate change, pakistan, brazil, countries all over the world, and make the case that maybe, just maybe, at this vital moment, unprecedented moment in american history -- world history, that maybe, just maybe, instead of spending $1.8 trillion a year on weapons of destruction designed to kill each other, maybe we should pool our resources, fight our common enemy, which is climate change. [cheers and applause] and when we talk about the issues impacting the american

people, together, we will end a broken and racist criminal justice system. this is america. we should not and will not have more people in jail than any other country on earth, including china. [cheers and applause] and those people are disproportionately african-american, latino, native american. we are going to invest in our young people, in jobs and education, not jails and incarceration. [cheers and applause] we are going to end private prisons and detention centers. we are going to end cash bail in america, because 400,000 people are in jail right now.

[cheers and applause] i will tell you what else we're going to do, we are going to end the destructive war on drugs. [cheers and applause] it turns out, as all of you know, there are some things a president can do by executive order. other things you need legislation. one of the things you can do by executive order, turns out, is to legalize marijuana in every state in this country. [cheers and applause] and that is what i intend to do. [cheers and applause] and the other thing we are going to do, let me ask all of you a question, how many people here know somebody arrested for possession of marijuana? we are going to move to expunge the records of those arrested. [cheers and applause] and when we talk about justice and decency in america, we are going to bring about fundamental

immigration reform. [cheers and applause] on day one, we are going to restore the legal status of the 1.8 million young people and their parents eligible for the daca program. [cheers and applause] we are going to end a border policy, which allows federal agents today to snatch babies away from their parents and separate families. [cheers and applause] and we will accomplish what should have been done a long time ago. and that is comprehensive immigration reform and a path towards citizenship. [cheers and applause] every american, no matter what his or her political view, is disgusted and horrified by the level of gun violence in america.

my promise to you is we will pass the most sweeping comprehensive gun safety legislation in the history of this country. [cheers and applause] donald trump and the republican leadership in congress are you intimidated by the nra. [crowd booing] our administration will not be intimidated by the nra. [cheers and applause] we are going to pass universal background checks. [cheers and applause] people who have engaged in violence, including domestic violence -- [cheers and applause] should not own guns. we are going to end the gun show

loophole. and among many other things, we are going to do what the american people today want, end the sale and distribution of assault weapons in this country. [cheers and applause] now, i'm a united states senator, and i'm on the floor of the senate often, hearing speeches from conservative republicans. and that is a painful experience. but i'm paid to do it, i do it. but, if you listen to these conservative republicans, their mantra is that they believe in small government. they believe in getting the government off the backs of the american people. we have heard that about 10 million times. well, i say to those hypocrites, if you believe in getting the government off the backs of the american people, understand that it is women who have the right to control their own bodies, not the government. [cheers and applause]

[chanting "bernie!"] sen. sanders: so i say -- here's my promise to you, i will never nominate anybody to the supreme court or the federal bench who is not 100% pro roe v. wade. [cheers and applause]

we will fight to codify roe v. wade, put it into law. [cheers and applause] donald trump and his friends want to cut funding for planned parenthood. [crowd booing] well, we have some very bad news for them, because we are going to significantly increase funding for planned parenthood. [cheers and applause] now, what reverend jesse jackson has spent his whole life talking about and what i believe is that campaigns like this are not about me, it's about us. [cheers and applause] it is about understanding that we are more human, we are better human beings, when we care for each other. [cheers and applause] when we don't turn our backs on human suffering, because ultimately, every family in america, trust me, has its share of problems. we are in it together. [cheers and applause] my family has got to care about your family. your family has got to care about my family. that is how we improve life for all of us.

[cheers and applause] and the other point about us, not me, is this campaign is of course about a presidential election. but it is about more than that. it is about creating a movement. [cheers and applause] because, let me tell you, what no other presidential candidate will ever tell you, no president, not bernie sanders or anybody else, can do it alone. [cheers and applause] when you are taking on the greed of wall street, when we are taking on the greed of the insurance industry, when we are taking on the greed of the pharmaceutical industry, when we are taking on the greed of the fossil fuel industry, when we are taking on the greed of the

military-industrial complex, and the greed of the prison industrial complex, and the greed of the whole 1%, the only way we win is when millions of people together stand up and fight for justice. one they say to the corporate elites, sorry, this country belongs to all of us, not just the wealthy few. [applause] on tuesday, there is going to be an important primary here in michigan.

[applause] back in 1988, jesse jackson won this state. [applause] 2016, i won this state. [applause] and on tuesday, if we stick together, we bring our friends out to vote, we are going to win it again. [applause] so brothers and sisters, let us go forward, let's win on tuesday, let's win the democratic nomination, less defeat trump, that's transform this country, -- let's defeat trump, let's transform this country, thank you all very much. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org]

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